The surprising upsides of living in a reality that repeats for eternityTue, 18 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Having faced the prospect that our minds are random fluctuations in a dead universe, quantum cosmologist Sean Carroll suggests that we may be stuck in an eternally repeating reality | |
Female clones created from the blood of male miceTue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 A CRISPR-based tool can perform sex reversal on male mouse embryos, reliably turning them into healthy females – a feat that could be valuable for conservation | |
Postbiotic could reduce the risk of brain damage after a concussionTue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Giving mice a byproduct produced by gut bacteria reduced their risk of severe brain damage and cognitive difficulties after a traumatic brain injury | |
Did humans evolve to be active throughout the day and night?Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Evidence from hunter-gatherers suggests humans aren't diurnal but cathemeral, with bouts of activity at nighttime – a sleep pattern similar to some lemurs | |
Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrailsTue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate impact of flights on a large scale | |
Feeding our books into generative AI risks creating a cultural voidTue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 When we put our literature, games and films into AI models, we risk replacing our cultural history with a mishmash of auto-generated works. We desperately need to preserve human writing, says columnist Annalee Newitz | |
Physicists may have solved a 30-year mystery over missing neutrinosTue, 18 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Since the 1990s, researchers have wondered if unexpected results from gallium-based neutrino detectors are a sign of a new kind of particle, but a new study suggests that revising their calculations could explain the anomaly | |
Britain’s only desalination plant remains idle during droughtMon, 17 Aug 2026 15:48:20 +0000 Water flow in the river Thames has dropped low enough to warrant the use of England’s only large-scale desalination plant, but it hasn’t been switched on at all this year | |
Why many women with ADHD feel overwhelmingly controlled by their hormonesMon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 People with ADHD are unusually sensitive to hormone shifts. Psychiatrists have started to pay attention, creating strategies to address the intense emotions and cognitive challenges caused by these changes | |
Our blood’s body clock may be causing anaemia cases to be missedMon, 17 Aug 2026 12:58:26 +0000 Blood tests may give different results depending on when in the day, or the year, they are taken, which could result in people missing out on an anaemia diagnosis | |